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Cache la Poudre Creek - Public domain scan / drawing

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Cache la Poudre Creek - Public domain scan / drawing

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Drawing shows a covered wagon, labeled "ILL," driven by two ox crossing a river in the mountains. On the far side of the river are two men by a fire, a covered wagon, and men standing and gesturing toward the wagon in the middle of the river. On the near shore men stand beside unhitched wagons, one labeled "Ohio," the other, "1859 Pikes Peak." An ox grazes lower right. This stream is located near present-day Ft. Collins, Colorado. Jenks arrived at camp 52 on Monday, May 30, 1859.
Signed on left wagon: DAJ.
Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.9)

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01/01/1859
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Jenks, Daniel A., 1827-1869, artist
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Library of Congress
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